Date:

Monday, December 6, 2010

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm Brodie, Chair

Councillor Linda Barnes

Councillor Derek Dang

Councillor Greg Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Ken Johnston

Councillor Bill McNulty

Councillor Harold Steves

Absent:

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt

Call to Order:

The Chair called the meeting to order at 3:33 p.m.

CLOSURE OF THE COMMITTEE MEETING TO THE PUBLIC AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE COMMUNITY CHARTER CLOSED MEETING CRITERIA

Committee hereby declares that the meeting held on Monday, December 6, 2010, is to be closed to the public, and that the basis of this closure is that the following items on the agenda of this meeting comply with the following closed meeting criteria specified in Section 90 of the Community Charter:

Item 1

90(1)(j) -     information that is prohibited, or information that if it were presented in a document would be prohibited, from disclosure under section 21 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act;

Items1 & 2

90(2)(b) -    the consideration of information received and held in confidence relating to negotiations between the municipality and a provincial government or the federal government, or both, or between a provincial government or the federal government or both and a third party;

Items 1 & 3

90(1)(e) -    the acquisition, disposition or expropriation of land or improvements, if the council considers that disclosure could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality; and

Item 4

90(1)(c) -    labour relations or other employee relations.

CARRIED

Those Present:  Phyllis Carlyle, Jeff Day, George Duncan, Joe Erceg, Robert Gonzalez, Mike Kirk, Andrew Nazareth, Amarjeet Rattan, Dave Semple, David Weber, Victor Wei, and Shanan Dhaliwal.

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on Monday, November 15, 2010, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED